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DIAPHRAGMATIC PLEURISY

Dictionary entry overview: What does diaphragmatic pleurisy mean?

• DIAPHRAGMATIC PLEURISY (noun)
The noun DIAPHRAGMATIC PLEURISY has 1 sense:

1. an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)

Familiarity information: DIAPHRAGMATIC PLEURISY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DIAPHRAGMATIC PLEURISY (noun)

Sense 1

diaphragmatic pleurisy ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

An acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

Bornholm disease; diaphragmatic pleurisy; epidemic myalgia; epidemic pleurodynia; myosis

Hypernyms ("diaphragmatic pleurisy" is a kind of...):

epidemic disease (any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people)

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